How to Store Your Waydoo for Winter

As much as we’d all love to keep cruising all year, most of us eventually hit that point where the water turns slushy and the stoke has to wait for spring. If you’re getting ready to put your Waydoo away for a few months, a little prep work now will save you frustration, battery damage, and unnecessary service tickets down the road.

This quick guide walks you through how we store our shop gear once the chill sets in, and what we recommend for every rider heading into winter.

Start With the Battery

Your battery is the one component that absolutely can’t be ignored, because long-term storage at the wrong charge level or in the wrong environment will shorten its lifespan.

You target charge for storage should be 50-60%. Storing at full capacity for months stresses the cells and slowly cuts into lifespan. If it sits empty, you risk over-discharging.

How to Get Your Battery to 50%

There are two options to drain your Waydoo battery:

Option 1: Go ride.

Honestly, this is the easiest method. Take one more fall session, run the pack down to about half, pull the gear apart, let everything dry, and call it good. If your water looks like ours right now and that sounds miserable, route two might make more sense.

Option 2: Use the EVO invertible charger as a power bank.

For Waydoo riders with the two-hour fast charger, you can flip it into “invertible” mode and let the battery power small electronics. Turn the battery on, switch the cord to Reset, hold the breathing button on the connector to activate it, and plug in a phone or laptop. It won’t drain instantly, but it beats freezing your fingertips off for a 20-minute session.

While we don't have a precise minute-by-minute discharge rate for you, we know it’s a nice slow draw that’ll get the pack down safely over an afternoon.

Clean the Electronics

Your connectors, terminals, and gaskets deserve a little attention before months of downtime. After your last ride:

1. Let everything air dry naturally.
2. Use rubbing alcohol and Q-tips to clean any old grease or moisture from the terminals.
3. Re-grease only the rubber gaskets, not the actual metal connector pins. A little goes a long way. Grease inside the pins can interfere with data flow, which leads to goofy error messages and unnecessary troubleshooting in spring.

If you’ve ever had your Waydoo refuse to boot after winter, nine times out of ten it comes back to moisture or old grease in the wrong spot. A five-minute cleaning now avoids that headache.

Choose the Right Storage Location

Cold kills batteries slowly, so avoid the uninsulated garage even if that’s where the rest of your gear lives.

Ideal battery storage spots:

• A closet inside the house
• A basement that stays dry
• Any indoor space that avoids freezing temps

Not ideal:

• Detached garages
• Vehicles
• Sheds
• Anywhere that swings between freezing and warm throughout the wing

Every other component — mast, board, wings, remote — can hang out in the basement, garage, or gear room without issue. For remotes, it’s still nice to let them settle around 50 percent charge.

A Quick Recap — Your Waydoo Winter Prep Checklist

• Bring battery to 50–60 percent
• Clean and dry all connectors
• Grease only the gaskets
• Store the battery indoors away from cold
• Stash the rest of the kit wherever it fits
• Reach out if you’re unsure about anything

If you’ve got questions, want a quick FaceTime walkthrough, or need help diagnosing an off-season issue, shoot me an email at efoils@mackite.com and we'll get you sorted.

Stay warm, stay stoked, and we’ll be back on the water before you know it.

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